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O.K Cyberarts 11

01/08/2011

Rachel Mayeri's new work has been awarded an honourary mention in this year's Prix Ars Electronica and been selected for the O.K Cyberarts 11 exhibition 1-7 September in Linz, Austria.  Pigeon d’Or, a piece by Tuur Van Balen exhibited at The Arts Catalyst in last year's show Further Instructions, has also been honoured at this year's Prix with an award of distinction for hybrid art. Pigeon d’Or will also be exhibited at O.K Cyberarts 11.

The LA-based video artist Mayeri has made a film for chimpanzees to watch, using their responses as a way of imagining what their inner worlds might be like. Shown as a multi-channel video installation, Primate Cinema: Apes as Family is Mayeri's work about the chimpanzees, their responses to visual media and reactions to a film created expressly for them. For this work, commissioned by The Arts Catalyst, Mayeri collaborated with comparative psychologist, Dr Sarah Jane Vick who studies chimp behaviour, looking at aspects of personality and emotional expression.

Rachel Mayeri's videos, installations, and writing projects explore the intersection of art and science through topics ranging from the history of special effects to the human animal. Mayeri’s “animated documentaries” combine motion graphics and live-action, documentary and storytelling.  She has created a series of experimental videos inspired by primates including Primate Cinema: Baboons as Friends (2007), a Hollywood style re-enactment of a baboon social drama with human actors.

Primate Cinema: Apes as Family, was made with financial support from a Wellcome Trust Arts Award, Arts Council England and the Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies.

Related articles and events

• Primate Cinema: Apes as Family, Rachel Mayeri
• Further Instructions

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